Clinical Reasoning: Assessing Your Skill

Clinical Reasoning: Assessing Your Skill

Module 1 discussion

DQ1 Clinical Reasoning: Assessing Your Skill

This activity gives you the opportunity to become familiar with the Digital Clinical Experience (DCE) and interact with Tina Jones. You will be using her and other avatars throughout the course to refine your ability to conduct a comprehensive health history and physical examination, and develop your clinical reasoning skills.

You must complete your Digital Clinical Experience (DCE) Orientation in Shadow Health before you begin this or any assignment in Shadow Health.

Respond to the following:

Question 1: Discuss clinical reasoning and describe the process through which a clinician’s clinical reasoning develops over time. How does the APN use this clinical reasoning to develop a hypothesis and establish a working diagnosis?

Question 2: Discuss what have you learned about yourself during your interaction with Tina. What have you learned about your skill level? What do you see as your goals for this course?

You are expected to participate in academic conversations with peers and faculty to generate scholarly dialogue. Expectations for participation in the course discussions are described under the Discussion Rubric: Exploration, Spirit of Inquiry, and Engagement (interactions) when relating your experiences, opinions, viewpoints, and ideas supported by evidence.

DQ2 Clinical Reasoning: Mental Health

For this discussion, you will use the scenario of Ms. Ruiz, covered in the module notes, to answer your questions.

Respond to the following:

Question 1: What questions should you ask Ms. Ruiz? What are your concerns for her? What kind of services would you need to establish for her follow-up care? What other members of the healthcare team would you work with in establishing a plan of care? Identify interventions, including health promotion activities that you would recommend. How would you treat her “sleep” issue?

Question 2: What impact may Ms. Ruiz’s social situation and culture have on this scenario?

You are expected to participate in academic conversations with peers and faculty to generate scholarly dialogue. Expectations for participation in the course discussions are described under the Discussion Rubric: Exploration, Spirit of Inquiry, and Engagement (interactions) when relating your experiences, opinions, viewpoints, and ideas supported by evidence.

Submission Instructions

Consult the Discussion Posting Guide for information about writing your discussion posts. It is recommended that you write your post in a document first. Check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors. When you are ready to make your initial post, click “Reply.” Then copy/paste the text into the message field, and click “Post Reply.”

To respond to a peer, click “Reply” beneath her or his post and continue as with an initial post.

Evaluation

This discussion will be graded using the discussion board rubric. Please review this rubric, located on the Rubrics page within the Start Here module of the course, prior to beginning your work to ensure your participation meets the criteria in place for this discussion. All discussions combined are worth 15% of your final course grade.